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Rachel Gabor

@riverchem.bsky.social
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Chemist turned hydrologist/biogeochemist - all things carbon and water.

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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
if you doubt the anger of scientists...read and circulate this piece. eos.org/opinions/sen...
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Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education - Eos
They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/05/2025
1. Far right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has just vacated all EEOC protections for gay and trans people in the work place. He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII. I cover this insane ruling here. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
Judge Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, ruled on the EEOC's treatment of Title VIII employment discrimination claims on gay and trans people.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason
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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
On a day when all research grants at Harvard were terminated, and in a context where Congress seems to broadly accept the notion that destroying science and health research in the US is fine, it’s worth noting that this is not what the public wants.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This report from @sanders.senate.gov didn't get enough attention yesterday. It tracks how much funding from science Trump has killed. www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
A graph showing National Cancer Institute Grant Funding Obligations, captioned, "Figure 1: Trump Has Slashed Cancer Research Funding by 31%; National Cancer Institute Grant Funding Obligations, January–March, Inflation-Adjusted (2015-2025)."

Using a red line, it shows funding dropped from over $1.100M to under $800M.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, two weeks ago: "I have long been concerned about PFAS. We are tackling PFAS from all of EPA's program offices, advancing research and testing, stopping PFAS from getting into drinking water systems, and holding polluters accountable." EPA today:
news.bloomberglaw.com
EPA Moves to Weaken Biden-era PFAS Limits for Drinking Water (2)
The EPA will rescind limits on several groups of PFAS in drinking water and extend the time for water systems to comply with limits for two other groups of “forever chemicals,” the agency said.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? 

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/05/2025
BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
we have a secretary of -transportation making it more dangerous to travel -education making kids stupider -defense making us more vulnerable to attacks -homeland security making us feel less secure than ever -health and human services trying to spread illness everything’s fine.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Many of my federal scientist friends are unwilling to speak to journalists, even on background, because they fear the consequences of speaking out. We've got a nice constitution here. It would be amazing if someone actually followed it.
cbsnews.com
Federal workers spoke to reporters after DOGE fired them. Now they face investigation.
At least half a dozen USAID employees are facing threats of "disciplinary action" for speaking to reporters after they thought they had been fired.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
forbes.com
The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 10/05/2025
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2025
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
science.org
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Pat Hyland @hylandwx.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧪 Here are some talking points: bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 09/05/2025
Until recently, the US S&T enterprise & higher ed systems were the envy of the world. The way it's being gutted is beyond heartbreaking. The US innovation engine is crumbling before our eyes. This moment in history is not just sad—it is profoundly tragic & represents an incalculable loss. So unreal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
DOGE was never about "efficiency."
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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hard to be healthy when you’re binge drinking because your entire field of employment, and large chunk of personal identity, has been set ablaze for absolutely no good reason.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/05/2025
A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.
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Federal judge appears likely to temporarily halt Trump's sweeping government overhaul
A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A video that says everything about this regime. A Newark Mayor attempting to visit a detention facility opened in his city without permits is handcuffed and detained by agents. Apparently Ras Baraka is now being held at the local ICE field office. Authoritarianism. (🎥 News 12 New Jersey)
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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation. Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
They’re talking about suspending habeas corpus and you guys are still trying to figure out how to scicomm your way back to normalcy. Absolutely clownish
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fund Elmo not Elon
A letter from Elmo to linkedin letting everyone know he was laid off because of the Trump administration
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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's never a question of IF, but WHEN will a pipeline leak. Now with a threat to 95% of the US's surface fresh water!
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Dynamic budget scoring should be applied to cuts to public R&D: "The economy tomorrow is going to be smaller because you decided to cut that funding today," he says. "And if your economy tomorrow is smaller, you're going to be raising less in taxes." www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
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Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The only winners: water lawyers. One of the lowest runoff totals in the last 35 years is forecast, as April watershed precip was 60% of average. "Hydrological conditions are starting to mirror the frightful years of 2020-22, when meagre runoff sent the reservoirs into a deep plunge to record lows."
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Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised. A gift from the content gods.
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Lizzy Trower @lizzyt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Things are bad
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is not a science budget. This is a massacre. thebridge.agu.org/2025/05/05/t...
A table titled "Funding Levels Summary (in millions)" shows funding data for various U.S. federal agencies over fiscal years FY24, FY25, and the FY26 President's Budget Request (PBR). It includes five columns: 
Agency, FY24 Omnibus, FY25 CR (Continuing Resolution), FY25 Enacted, FY26 PBR, and % Change from FY25 to FY26 PBR.

Agencies and their respective funding levels (in millions) and percent changes are:

DOE (Department of Energy)

FY24 Omnibus: $50,246.75

FY25 CR: $50,246.75

FY25 Enacted: $49,800

FY26 PBR: $45,100

% Change: -9.4%

DOE Office of Science

FY24 Omnibus: $8,240

FY25 CR: $8,240

FY25 Enacted: —

FY26 PBR: $7,092

% Change: -13.9%

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

FY24 Omnibus: $9,158.89

FY25 CR: $9,158.89

FY25 Enacted: $9,100

FY26 PBR: $5,000

% Change: -54.5%

NASA

FY24 Omnibus: $24,875

FY25 CR: $24,875

FY25 Enacted: $24,800

FY26 PBR: $18,800

% Change: -24.3%

NASA SMD (Science Mission Directorate)

FY24 Omnibus: $7,334.20

FY25 CR: $7,565.70

FY25 Enacted: —

FY26 PBR: $3,908.2

% Change: -46.7%

NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

FY24 Omnibus: $997.02

FY25 CR: $997.02

FY25 Enacted: —

FY26 PBR: NA

% Change: NA

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

FY24 Omnibus: $6,319

FY25 CR: $6,319

FY25 Enacted: —

FY26 PBR: $4,799

% Change: -24%

NSF (National Science Foundation)

FY24 Omnibus: $9,060

FY25 CR: —

FY25 Enacted: $8,800

FY26 PBR: $3,900

% Change: -55.8%

USGS (United States Geological Survey)

FY24 Omnibus: $1,455.43

FY25 CR: $1,455.43

FY25 Enacted: —

FY26 PBR: $891.43

% Change: -38.8%

Red text is used to denote percentage decreases in FY26 PBR compared to FY25. Several entries for FY25 Enacted are missing or denoted with a dash. NIEHS has no FY26 PBR or percent change listed.
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Rachel Gabor @riverchem.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I love these posters so much!
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is important when expecting others to resist. We all experiencing different levels of precarity, and of different kinds. Some of us can retire at this moment, many of us can't. Some have family with identities being targeted, some don't. Some are more mobile than others.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Hey it's almost like we should fight every fucking order this idiot makes, because they're not legal, he's a buffoon, and fuck him
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Just one year ago, JD Vance was a leading advocate of the Great Lakes and the efforts to restore the largest system of freshwater on the face of the planet. Now, his boss’ administration is upending the very restoration efforts that Vance once championed.
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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Losing fundamental data on the state of our planet. Sea ice data isn't just about climate change - its about shipping, national security, ecology, fisheries, energy resource extraction, and more. That's not even accounting for the snow and glacier data listed here.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is insane. This program saves money, creates jobs, and helps nearly all Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/05/2025
No one has been returned from CECOT even as we learn more and more about the arbitrary and illegal nature of this operation. The Republicans continue to stonewall the courts. Don’t let this story slip from view.
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Judge Declines to Remove Order Requiring Return of Deported Migrant
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Not only is there no capacity to absorb huge cuts to US science, these countires are ignoring the excess capacity they already have. If there is one thing there is no shortage of anywhere there is any science funding, it is is scientists.
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